Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 30 - Jan. 5, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 17

Savage Love

Love Is...

Film/TV

Bore Me, Michael Cera

I Regret That PR Departments Murdered the Interview as an Art Form

Anatomy of a Joke

I Regret Agreeing to Write 400 Words from the Perspective of Kim Cattrall's Vagina

Concessions

The Only Thing I Don't Hate Is Hating

Art House

My Regrets

I, Anonymous

Music

My Personal Year in Music 2010

If the Thought Strikes You While Reading This "Why Should I Care?" Congratulations!

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Fucking in the Streets

The Year in Regrets

Data Breaker

Regrets? Not So Much

It's a Hit

No Regrets About the Wealth of Great DJ Podcasts

Sound Check

2010 Regrets: The Spirit of Eazy-E

My Philosphy

The Year in Local Hiphop Regrets

The Homosexual Agenda

New Year's Eve!

Theater

Je Ne Regrette Rien!

Except for French Playwright Yasmina Reza, Queen of Mediocrity

Visual Art

In a World Ruined by Massive Action

The Art Book of 2010 Is Failure

Books

Reading Regret, Writing Regret

Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon Map the Pain of Abandoned Worlds

Food & Drink

Reader Review Regrets

RIP or Don't Let the Door Etc.: Stranger Readers on the Departed Restaurants of 2010

News

What They Really Think of Us

Subjects of The Stranger's News Coverage Regret a Lot of the Things We've Said About Them in the Last Year

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Maakies

Underworld

Control Tower

2011: What's In, What's Out

I Love Television

The Dumbest Things I Wrote All Year

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Scalia: Women, Gays Aren't Citizens Who Deserve Equal Protection

Those Naked Scenes

Hello I Love You: New Restaurants 2010

Goodnight, Spaaaaaaaace!

What Is Innovation?

Nerds! The Time Has Come For You To Judge Me!

Survey Finds Support in Seattle for Later Bar Hours, But McGinn's Path Remains Blocked in Olympia

Every Sea Monkey Needs a Mother and a Father

What Women Do When Alone With A Salad

Lunchtime Quickie: Move Over Shake Weight...

Raw Calling People Shows a Lack of Taste

Interview on WTTW

Christine O'Donnell Is Not a Witch

Penguins These Days!

Fuck Tuition, It's "Net Cost" That Really Matters

Get Your Ass Off the Couch: Foreign Films, Scientists, and Basketball Teams

Grim's on Capitol Hill: Is It or Is It Not "Steampunk"?

Jones Soda Gets Inappropriate

How Many More Children Must Die to Keep Crosscut Alive?

This Old Phone Number

Dreaming the Imperials

"Where can I recycle my old cell phone and iPod?"

Sharks, Cocaine, and Dousings of Gasoline

Traffic Report

Dear Person Who Sent Me Officewatch Facsimile Salutations: Thank You

ACLU Says Metro Ban on Political Ads Is "Illegal"

The Leaders of Sad Pakistan Can Learn Something From Robert Mugabe's Wife

Bowdlerizing Huckleberry Finn

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Bieber Fan Scorned

Scenes from Sunday

Jamie Kilstein Is Funny

Kevin Smith Had a Big Couple Days on Twitter

What I Did Over Xmas Vacation

Local GOP Operative Todd Hermann Puts the Twit Into Twitter

Religion Poisons Everything

What Is the Deal With that Annoying Band/Couple on the Hyundai Commercials!?!

Musical Crime in Alaska

Jobs for the People!

Police: Middle Schooler Fondled!

Virginia Textbooks Claim Blacks Fought For Confederacy, Slavery Not Cause of War, Riddled With Other Factual Errors

Guess Who Might Be Running for President*

Jesus's Body Had Hepatitis A

Seattle Should Support New York's Ali Forney Center

Gregoire Calls on Legislators to Let State Universities Set Higher Tuition Rates

The Morning News

Those Rodents

Disgust = Virtue

A Terrible Idea for a Bookmark

How Did Moving Work Out for Elliott Bay Book Company?

New, Non-traditional Books from Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon

Open Homosexual Dances With Little Boy...

Police Beat: "It's a Crack Thing"

What's Ahead in 2011

This Lady Has More Mouth than My Ex-Wife

Stupid, Stupid Baby: Little Doctor No

Putting Up

Justin Bieber in Vanity Fair!

That Debt Ceiling Thing?

The Continuing Trials of Belarus Free Theater

The Horror! The Horror!

Kids Say the Most Face-Punchiest Things

Color Spit Group

Versailles to Become A Luxury Hotel

The "High Tuition/High Financial Aid" Model Only Works If You Provide High Financial Aid

Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel!

Here, Let Me Solve the Entire Washington State Budget Mess in Three Easy Steps

RIP Medina the Sloth Bear

Dept. of Less Successful Holiday Displays

It Gets Better: Rebecca Drysdale

Where the Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer Employees Are Now

Sprouts: Not Actually Good for You

Sounds Like Belarus Free Theater Snuck Away From Their Home Dictatorship and Made It to NYC

Illegal Immigrants, Black Presidents, Showering With Homos, Islamic Community Centers, Blacks Who Aren't Presidents, Americans Having Access to Health Care...

Gun-Crazy Country

Any Idiot Can Write

Glenn Beckwatch: Glenn Beck Recommits to Being Glenn Beck

Another Way to Help Erase Washington's Budget Shortfall: Legalize and Tax Marijuana

In Case You Missed It

Beebs and Gomez Sittin' in a Tree...

Today from the Random Art Gallery of the Internet

Gary Larson's Kids Look Funny

Lunchtime Quickie: Update: The Man With The Golden Voice

Deep Thought

Lunchtime Punditry: "It's like Marrakesh over there."

The Reading Party's Special Guests Tomorrow Night

Republicans Don't Read

A Map of 2011 in Books

The Last Poll I Will Publish in 2010; the Most Important Poll I Will Publish in 2010

A Newspaper Is Not a Christmas Card

Scenes from the Beautiful Struggle

SL Letter of the Day: A Few Things...

The Many Animated Emotions of James Van Der Beek

Another Reason for You to Dislike Me: I Didn't Think Toy Story 3 Was All that Great

Downtown Hotel Fire, as Seen from 7th Ave

It Is Not Almost Two Thousand and Eleven

More From the City of Portland

"Portland Is Where Young People Go to Retire"

Currently Hanging: Troy Gua's Pissing Contest

'Nibbus Maximus'

Apple and Google Continue to Fight Over Newsstand Bragging Rights

2011: The Year of 7 Billion

Ho ho ho, oh wait . .

If I Had a Top Ten List for 2011, This Would Be On It

Flickr Photo of the Day

Woman Killed By Clothes

Man Takes a Picture of His Killer

The Next Reading Party at the Sorrento Is Wednesday Night

Move, Run, Win

No, You Are Not Entitled to Free Parking Spaces, Free Streets, Free Traffic Lights, Etc. and So Forth

The Morning News

Another Reason for Seattle Theater Artists to Hate New York

Does Sarah Palin Support DADT Repeal?

It's Official-ish

Senator Kohl-Welles Backpedals on Her Promise to Repeal Tunnel Cost Overruns Language

"A Large Fox Tends to Have Great Confidence."

SL Letter of the Day: Soldiering On

Mormon Underpants Central

Nerd Cred: The Reckoning

Important Question: With Maharaja Closed, Where Will All the Kids Who Can't Get Into the Hunter Gatherer Lodge Hang Out and Cause Trouble?

God Hates Turds

Drowning Our Sorrows?

Only One Seattle Legislator Is Vowing to Take on the Tunnel Cost Overruns Language: Jeanne Kohl-Welles

Free Pie TONIGHT!

You Know What This Winter's Been Missing?

What They Regret About Us

The Quotable Bieber

Amazon Drops Book About How to Become an Amazon Bestseller

Great West Coast Newspaper War Settled

Three for 2011

Bo Diddley Was Born 82 Years Ago Today

Playing Bill Clinton

SL Letters of the Day: Grateful Readers/Listeners

Slade Gorton, Still Redistricting After All These Years

Flickr Photo(s) of the Day

As Publishing Improves, Borders Keeps Digging a Hole

Bill Donahue! To the Batshit Mobile!

The Two Most Self-Defeating Things That Washington Voters Did in 2010

It's Not Just Seattleites Who Freak Out on Their Mayor When the Streets Aren't Plowed

How Political Was Picasso?

Washington State Is Not Like Most of America

There Goes Health Care Reform?

Dept. of Ridiculousness: Everything Old Is New (and Stupid) Again

Iraq and the Ban of Toy Guns

Who Doesn't Know Frogger?

Train Offers Revelers 38 Minutes More Drinky Time

No More Drama for a Table Tennis Star

The Art I Saw On My Winter Vacation

Seattle Partly Responsible for Ginned Up Yakkers' Talking Point: "The War on Cars"

Gun-Crazy Country: The Boy Who Shot and Killed His Own Mother

The Fun Forest: In Memoriam

I Was Having a Shitty Day Until I Received This Text Message

The True State of Capitalism

A Private E-Book Lending Library

My Top Ten Films for 2010

More Popular Than "God"

Color of the Year

Shorter Michael Medved: Lesbians Make My Dick Hard...

Oh, Gay Paris

John Boehner, Size Queen

Which Books Will Save You from a Bullet?

Stupid Budget Tricks, or Why Our State Government Can't Afford to Become Addicted to Gambling and Alcohol

State to Sign Tunnel Contract on Thursday

We're #7!

Bill Would Allow Legal Pot Stores, Licensed Growers

"Arsonists Posing as Firemen"

Park Talk Will Be Super Interesting in 2011, I Swear

Good Black People Deserve Good Chicken!

Have You Read Paul Constant's Essay on How PR Departments Murdered the Interview?

Prop 8 Ruling from 9th Circuit—Back to State Court, for Now

Newsflash: God Is a Teabagger

The Morning News: North Korea vs. South Korea, Facebook vs. Google, the Winter Classic vs. Rain, and You vs. 2011

This Cat Seems to Think It's an Otter

Flickr Photo of the Day

The Last Woman Standing

January Art Walk, Folksz

Shocker: Hollywood Had a "Dismal" 2010

Caperin': Derek Erdman Stops Making Sense and Starts Giving Relationship Advice!

The Morning News

The Morning News

Goodbye Forever: Dead Restaurants 2010

Mayonnaise Drinks

The Morning News

Lunchtime Quickie: Can Someone Please Hire This Homeless Man

SL Letter of the Day: A Quick Answer

Water Leak Closes Seattle Elementary School

Borders Is Delaying Payments to Vendors

A Tea Bagger's Regret

How Not to Kick Someone's Ass

When Tron Met Tourette Syndrome

The Morning News

Podcasts

Savage Love Episode 220

Suggests

Ramadanman

'A Fire in My Belly'

Chungee's Drink 'n Eat

Nine Nation Animation

'The Room'

Dick's Burgers for Luck

'Tiny Furniture'

Neurosis, Wolves in the Throne Room, Black Breath

Regrets

We Regret These Errors

A Year of Blatant Inaccuracies, Stunning Lapses, Errors, and Obvious Oversights

I Regret Those Girls in Roslyn

(I Mean, Fer Fuck's Sake!)

I Regret Nothing

(Except My Chaffed Genitals—That's Just Irritating)

What You Think About When You Think About Chile

(You're Thinking of the Trapped Miners, I Can Tell! Stop It!)

A Guide to the Jokes in This Issue for the Staff of Gawker

(Because Gawker Had Trouble Keeping Up with Our Jokes This Year)

Hands Off My Leeks

I'm Just Trying to Make a Living Over Here